The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades,…

An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova's A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to…

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An explicit engagement with the trend of the demise of the very idea of truth and its implications for democracy.…

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Diving into Harvard Square''s past and present, Catherine J. Turco, an economic sociologist and longtime Harvard Square…

How have human cultures engaged with and thought about animals, plants, rocks, clouds, and other elements in their natural…

With the work of reporters under fire worldwide, this year''s anthology of National Magazine Award finalists and winners is…

The Best American Magazine Writing 2020 brings together outstanding in-depth reporting and incisive criticism. It features…

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The Power of And offers a new narrative about the nature of business, revealing the focus on responsibility and ethics that…

Alexander Griboedov''s Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society…

Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the…

Called by many France's foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His…

In his best-selling book You Must Change Your Life!, Peter Sloterdijk argued exercise and practice were crucial to the human…

Debunks a variety of time-honoured rules and dictums about cooking and presents new and improved ways of preparing a variety…

As alarm over global warming spreads, a radical idea is gaining momentum. Forget cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some…

There is no denying that Meir Zarchi's I Spit on Your Grave (1978) deserves its title as one of the most controversial films…

This postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual…

The glamorous world of big-city geisha is familiar to many readers, but little has been written of the life of hardship and…

Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal anecdotes to analyze the…

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In this provocative work, Julia Kristeva analyzes the inexorable push toward faith that lies at the heart of the psyche and…

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Popularized by Michael Pollan in his best-selling In Defense of Food, Gyorgy Scrinis's concept of nutritionism refers to the…

Leading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the "human brain flavor system,"…

Compiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of…

Danger: Diabolik (1968) was adapted from a comic that has been a social phenomenon in Italy for over fifty years. This study…

Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Julia KristevaÂ’s that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect, her…

Cognitive science joins with Asian contemplative traditions and philosophy to bring revolutionary meaning to the human…

Wu Zhao (624–705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China as emperor. How did she…

Keiichiro Hirano''s Eclipse, set on the eve of the Renaissance in Europe, is the award-winning debut novel of one of…

Richard Kearney offers a timely call for the cultivation of the basic human need to touch and be touched. Making the case…

Dickson D. Despommier proposes a visionary yet achievable plan for creating a new, self-sustaining urban landscape.…

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This book traces the evolution of our understanding of the heart from the dawn of civilization to the present. Vincent M.…

A portrait of Parisian intellectuals of the 1960s as seen through the eyes of Olga, a young Eastern European who comes to…

Julia Kristeva illustrates the advances and impasses of rebel culture through the experiences of three twentieth-century…

Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and…

This book shows how self-improvement culture became so toxic'-and why we need both a new concept of the self and a mission…

In Common Sense, the New York Times best-selling author Joel Greenblatt offers an investor''s perspective on building an…

Leading scientists, philosophers, historians, and public intellectuals debate the big questions. These public dialogues…

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Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences'-political, social, ecological, economic'-challenge us to develop…

To Write as if Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno''s failed attempts to write a study of HervĂ© Guibert''s To the…

Leading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the "human brain flavor system,"…

Win from Within offers a playbook for developing and deploying organizational culture that enables outsized results. It is a…

Considered one of the most important works of one of France's foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic…